Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Perverse; stubborn.
- adjective Cursed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slang or Colloq., U. S. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; obstinate.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cuss . - adjective
Ill-tempered ,nasty ,obstinate . - adverb degree
Very , cussedly,accursedly .
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- adjective stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
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Examples
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Only thing, she calls a cussed old catfish a 'poisson.'
The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890
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From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state.
Obama's Culture War 2010
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From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state.
Obama's Culture War 2010
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From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state.
Obama's Culture War 2010
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But it must be admitted that the sympathies and hopes of all in the Frolic centered in the Yale shell; a Yale coach had drilled and scolded and "cussed" and petted the Navy boys to victory only a few weeks before, and Ralph, if no one else, felt that all his future rested in the ability of that Yale coach "to knock some rowing sense into his block."
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(Loud applause) A race, which stubbornly refuses to look at the map until its business has been done, and which after all has a straightforward-I speak in the presence of a Bishop - "cussed" honesty about it.
India and the Empire 1920
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Of course she was very indignant and scolded them, Goliah specially, whereupon Goliah's sister Catty, who is well named, being of a feline nature in the worst sense of the word, had broken out and "cussed" her outrageously.
A Woman Rice Planter 1914
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Den de good ol '' Lishy looked back an 'cussed 'em, when two she-bars heerd him an' come out uf de woods wid der cubs at der heels, an 'walked in on der hin' legs 'mong dem bad town-boys, a scratchin 'an' a clawin ', a bitin' an 'a gnawin', right an 'lef', an 'neber stoppin' till dey had tore an 'chawed 'em every one up.
Burl Morrison Heady 1872
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Yet another natural disaster, this time an earthquake of horrendous magnitude, has all but flattened what was left of that 'cussed' country.
slumry commented on the word cussed
Sometimes an adjective meaning "perverse, or obstinate" as in "That cussed omputer of mine would not boot this morning," or "That cussed wife of mine did not want to make eggy toast for me this morning."
June 30, 2007